The Long Voyage Home

The instrumental strains of “Harbor Lights,” the popular song from 1937, sound over the opening prologue: “With their hates and desires men are changing the face of the earth – but they cannot change the sea. Men who live on the sea never change – for they live in a lonely world apart as they drift from one rusty tramp steamer to the next, forging the life-lines of Nations.

What do films like The Bigamist, MacBeth, Diary of a Chambermaid, Farewell To Arms have in common? Answer: All those films have been saved from extinction by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, their restorations financed by the HFPA. And now another classic will be rescued from the endangered species list:.